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(male announcer) live from the bay area here is your kron 4 news >> classes resume today in the glasses of new townonn and so do the burials of the 20 children who were killed on friday. we're learning more about the gunman this morning. >> it will be a week of funerals and new town conn it. today the very youngest child will be buried. the six year old jessica rekos. the morning continues in new town conn. another victim will be laid to rest. on monday mourners at a 5 by 26 year-old jack pinto. >> that is very sad. i don't know how any parent could take it, losing their first grader. >> i started to cry. it is
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very close to home. >> students in the area had back to school on tuesday except for sandy hook elementary school students. monday the supplies of for the school or move to a nearby town where sandy hook students will eventually return to class. >> we need to reach out with love. that is what our community is doing, putting our arms around people. that is still hard to discover why the 20 year-old student >> we know as investigators that the people want to know what happened, why did this happen? we will make it crystal clear picture as was as much as we possibly can. >> the atf is 0 in an on gun ranges author of this area.
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investigators now know that the shooter used to attend the target practice. >> we are learning about the shooter adam lanza. he had aspergers syndrome. we learn that adam lanza may have tried to buy a gun at six sporting goods last week. officers say he was unsuccessful and that attempts and that the employees had been interviewed by police. the chain has pulled several semiautomatic rifles from its shelves nationwide. >> citizens in los gatos even more determined to keep a gun shop and opening up. will tran is live on the scene. this gunshot and
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implantable for quite awhile? >> that is right out of their permits and licenses. they also had the police department and an officer go in there. just in case anything was wrong so they can fix it. they are ready to go and meeting all of the local people in meeting federal standards. they're not doing anything legally wrong but people around here is a morally you shouldn't open up a gun shop. there were all aware that this place was even available to be open for a gunshot. they complained to the city about it asking why didn't they get a chance to sfo why we don't want a gun shop in los gatos. there is a playground as well as the apartment complex nearby. the city says by long we do not have to have a public airing any time someone wants to open up shop and the city. that is why was not known to many people aren't so quarter according to them it was too late.
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they are upset about this and must do something or the city changes its mind it will open up on saturday. there were possibly be protesters here. of the phone call and to the owner of the shop and hopefully they will get an interview here. one person who jogged by says she had no problems with the perry and others do not feel is and why. >> let's get with the weather, chilly to start with. >> we will see some of the coals conditions of the tire entire year. patchy frost is possible and also some north bay fog is a possibility. we've not seen any reports of low visibility this morning and it is chilly and the north bay. partly cloudy for the north bay and breezy
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at times. tomorrow morning get ready for the chilly transition. mostly sunny and dry for tomorrow. get ready for a storm that arrives on thursday. we are talking widespread rain and wind conditions. temperatures right now 45 for downtown san francisco napa 33 for san arouse the vallejo is 34 and up towards the north we're talking temperatures run around freezing are close to it. oakland is that 44 san mateo is a 46, 39 for pleasanton, 34 in concord. tomorrow for what all those will be in the 30's and some of us will be in the '20s to morning. satellite and radar show us we have basically clear conditions overnight. we will stay dry for the most part. we have a slight
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chance for a shower keeping in mind for the most part we will be dry for today. you can see and parts of oregon they're getting snow. seattle is also reporting a dusting of snow this morning. >> winter weather advisory until noon today. get ready for the cold with the frost advisory. the surge to more morning until 8:00. you concede a frost advisory and the shoreline communities and also the interior eastern make communities. what this basically means is that it will be really cold. we're talking low 20's and
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30's the mob. if you have plans, bring them and otherwise complete damage. future cast shows a crowd clouds and increasing tomorrow evening. the north bay along the coast we will see some snow. also some rain moving in. wednesday night in north bay and thursday early morning we will see some of the rain spelling and very the of indicates moderate to heavy rain. come thursday or friday there is a lot more moisture with the system. highs for today i several degrees below the average high of mid to upper 50s. downtown san francisco's only 52 of the mid-50s them until 5351 for vallejo. lsi will see plenty of sunshine for today. 7 day around the bay temperatures and the lower '50s for wednesday and thursday. >> we have confirmed from
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the police department that sand hill road is still closed at el camino. there was an accident that knocked off the cap of a fire hydrant, and flooded intersection. that is the reason is still closed. >> at 708 we want to check the markets. not doing too much of anything but at least not negative. the dow was up two points. >> we will take a quick break but we'll be back with more news in just a minute. will go outside and give you a quick look at washington d.c. where we have the floor the house right now. representatives are recognizing the victims of the shooting spree and new town conn last friday.
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>> a reporter and his crew held for five days in syria have been freed. nbc news says is the chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, is safe, and harmed at now out of the country. the network says they disappeared shortly after crossing into northwest syria from turkey on thursday. he is says that they were finally freed monday a fire fight at a checkpoint manned by rebel fighters, which they ran
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into as they were being moved. nbc says that while the crew was missing, there was no claim of responsibility, no contact with the capers and no request for ransom. >> hawaii's senator daniel enna-way has died. he died of respiratory complications and washington area hospitals. if the 88 year old was the longest serving senator. he spent 50 years in the senate and was a medal of honor recipient. according to be in na wheys office his last word was " aloha". >> we will be right back.
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>> in the wake of the deadly connecticut elementary school shooting, we are hearing more stories of courage and heroism. gene rosen lives near the school in newtown. friday morning, before anyone knew what had happened, he discovered six terrified children in a school bus driver on the front lawn. it rosen invited them into his home. he describes what happened next. >> when the kids stated that they could not go back because their teacher is dead and bay could not go back. i could not accept that. i just kept listening
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to them and when they talk more one of them stated that it was a big gun and a small gun. they stated that there was blood, and there was blood. i prayed. >> the teacher was 27 year- old vicotoria soto. she reportedly shielded her students in the corner of the room to get away from the gunfire. the kids and somehow got away and were able to get to rosen's home. rosen gave them some jews and some of his grandson's toys to comfort them, then he called their parents. >> we have clear skies
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outside and it is along the temperatures to drop. it is a cooler start today and even colder tomorrow. weaken see fault developing. we are not getting any notation of the visibility. in the north bay, and there is only a slight chance. the temperatures will drop fast tonight. and we will have a frost and freeze warnings in effect. >> it is 33 degrees and concord. pleasanton is in the upper 30's and 44 degrees in downtown san francisco. the temperatures are chilly aside. the
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satellite and radar shows that it is snow falling in tahoe. they do have a winter weather advisory until noon today. we would check vouchers note report at the end of the forecast. we even has no and oregon and seattle this morning. see the sn the cold air will come in. >> the rate for the cold and this is the frost and freeze advisor is starting o at 3:00 a.m. in the morning. this basically means that the temperatures will drop in the '20s and it will be widespread 30's for
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tomorrow morning. you have to cover your sensitive plants. this is the coldest air that we have seen. wednesday night we will see some rain and snow falling. what was the clouds in greece and then come late wednesday night into thursday morning we will see more widespread rain carrier >> which is see two to 4 in. of rain by thursday and friday. if the highs for today is a little bit below average. lower 50s for downtown san francisco, mid- 50s for oakland and have moon bay will be in a lower 50s. here is your kron 47 day around the bay. it is very cold tonight, we will be dry. the windy
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conditions was also come. for the weekend will will see showers and we may see rain also for christmas eve. >> 11 in. of snow may pave pickuif you are lucky enough to get up there today you will enjoy fresh snow. >> better news for your ride through palo alto. san hill road just reopened at el camino. and driver knocked the top of a fire hydrant off. and the water flooded the streets. the roadway has now reopened. here is a bridge check. pridfor the salmon
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tell bridge spans are starting to slow down about 18 minutes for drive time. there is a big change in pattern this year for the san mateo bridge. looking at your ride on the golden gate bridge is an easy commute. the volume is building up and their track and drive times. >> it is 21 minutes from hercules to berkeley. things are starting to slow for a 680 south. your 101 drive time is now 23 minutes heading north from 85 of the highway 237. he is still a fairly normal ride. in the north bay and things are not bed is just a little slow before 37 on 1 01
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southbound. >> meantime court documents say the gunmen last week's oregon a small shooting acted weird and had talked about moving and selling his possessions. investigators say that 22 year-old j. cut tyler roberts opened fire at the vclackamas town center mall outside portland, killing two people and wounded a third, before taking his own life. hours after rampage, roberts will make called a tip line and told a detective that he thought roberts might be responsible. if the room may says that roberts began selling his belongings on
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craigslist and often talk about moving till y yea. >> bay area headlines this morning. the chp is looking for the five or six good samaritans who came to the aid of a driver and passenger of his truck that crashed into a grove of trees on 280 and millbrae. witnesses say other drivers rushed over with fire extinguishers. both victims men in their 40's suffered major burns and were taken to the hospital. we know now that the name of one of those people came to help was sought christine laresn. she is a nursing student at san mateo college. >> will be right back.
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>> here is a look at your bay area average gas prices. in san francisco that average right now is $3.61 for a gallon of regular gas. across the bay in oakland, it is $3.49 a gallon. in the south bay it's also $3.49 for a regular gallon of gas. the state average right now for california is $3.55 a gallon. >> target plans to open its
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line we are back as 7:30 a.m.. here is a look at tahoe. we have snow on the ground there. this is great news for people who want to get up there and take on skiing. >> a lot of the results are
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getting a lot of snow. some of them are getting up to a foot. it is this thing conditions for the weekend. here is a beautiful shot of the golden gate bridge and you concede very few clouds outside. i do not want to for you because it is very cold outside. it is about 5 to 10 degrees cooler. temperatures have fallen right around the freezing point. we have not seen any reports of low visibility. this afternoon there will be loss of sunshine but there may be a stray showers. tonight will be clear but just cold. >> we do have a freeze on
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for early wednesday morning. it is cold and napa at 32 degrees. vallejo drop to 34 degrees and 45 degrees in san mateo. daly city is in the lower 40's. this is what wwhere we are most concerned. i will break down your 7 day forecast later on. >> we are not tracking any hot spots and the drive times in general are running faster than normal. it is a much lighter commute day. the westbound ride is already at 19 minutes from the mimic freeway. it is longer than that if you are coming from the macarthur mayes from 24. if you're looking at a 26 minute drive time. the san mateo bridge is one up again and it is now is 15 to 80 minutes.18 minue
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are still under 30 minutes from iran comic from 37 to the golden gate bridge. >> it is 7:32 a.m.. schools in newtown, conn. are opening their doors to that for the first time since friday's deadly shooting at sandy hooke elementary. the school where 20 children died will remain close. it's been designated a crime scene, and state police say it could be months before police turned the school back over to the district. in the meantime, school officials are making plans to send students where former if middle school in a neighboring town. >> two more six year olds
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from sandy hook will be laid to rest today. the family of jessica and rekos pitcher, wright says that she loved horses and was eagerly anticipating a pair of kahlo grumbles for christmas. meanwhile, charlotte bacon is described as being a bundle of energy and love school. services for both will be held today. >> two boys a 13 year-old and a 12 year-old have been arrested for allegedly breaking into a vallejo home is still in a gun. yesterday afternoon police got a call the two boys were spotted running across a columbus parkway caring and rifle case. officers chased them down. they found a 22 caliber rifle and some bullets. police say that the boys broke into a home on irene drive and were on their way to shoot at a home. they were taken to do
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it now called. >> a suisun man is in custody this morning accused oppose an online, as the police consider criminal threats. 18 year-old sergio cabada was arrested for writing that he supports the connecticut school shooter's actions and that he thought about doing the same thing. here's a photo of cabada he was arrested at his home in suisin. if police say that he wanted to prevent any possibility of a violent act. >> we are just learning more information about the local gun buyback program. just a day after the connecticut issue in both oakland and san francisco took nearly 600 guns off the
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street. revolvers, pistols, shotguns, rifles, and assault rifles were collected over the weekend. a lot of the guns were easily go. on saturday 300 guns were turned 10 in oakland, and 296 in san francisco. >> an east bay high school senior is being mourned today after he was killed in a shooting in san francisco's bayview district. 17 year-old montreal blakely, was shot in the first block of oscela land on saturday night. the concord high school student played on the football team. many students at the school organized the the social media to where blacks today to mourn blakely. san francisco police have not
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made any arrests. the white house offered new revenues far only $800 billion in net spending reductions. this is not balanced in my opinion but at the same time will continue to talk the president and will hope that we can move to plan b. i think we all know that every income tax that is filed in america will play a higher rate in january for spirit it is very important for us protect american tax payers as we can. our plan be will protect americans who make a million dollars or less and have all of their current rates- that's opposite have hope that we will reach a broader agreement with the white house and this will
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help reduce the spending as well as the rebels. i think it will be better for our country but at this point have and a backup plan to make sure that few americans are affected as possible will wind down this pathway. >> the president wants to raise the top tax rates on those earning $400,000 per year. this will balance his if earlier increase from $250,000. we was see if they can find some ground. >> the dow was up but now look at it. it is now up at 43 points. we will be right back with more news. here is a live look at our walnut creek cam. you concede that the traffic is slowing on
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680. it is cold outside. >> will be right back.
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>> we are back. forbes has released its list of music's and brightest young stars of 2012. >> the list features people who have one thing in common. they are all under the age of 30. the list includes hit makers such tests adele, lady gaga and justin bieber. others to make the cut include songwriters and music producer such test benny blanco and skylar grey, who have helped write hits for artists suggests eminem, rihanna and maron-5. for the
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full list and to see whom make a cut in categories of of the music you can check out for itforbes.com./ >> you to has released its list of top-10 training videos of the year. not surprisingly, is certain caribbean rap star leads the list. psy's "gangnam style" is on track to hit 1 billion views. in just six months, it became the most viewed you to video ever. others on the lists of most view the videos include, kony 2012, and call me maybe by carly rae jepsen.
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>> welcome back this 7:44 a.m. the top stories we're following at this hour. all schools in newtown, connecticut will reopen today except sandy hooke elementary school. two of the victims jessica and rekos and charlotte bacon will be laid to rest today. we are learning more about the shooter as dumping lanza who reportedly had asperger's syndrome. >> here's a look at the golden gate bridge. temperatures are definitely cooler compared to yesterday morning. temperature rise we are still want to be a
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little bit below average. it was still be a pretty good day. today we may see patchy fog especially in the northern part. the good news is that i have not received any reports of low visibility. it will be just partly cloudy, breezy at times. >> we do have frost and freeze advisories' early for wednesday morning. otherwise it will be dry. thursday we will have a big change as far as wet weather is concerned. temperatures right now it is 44 degrees in oakland and downtown san francisco. napa is still at the freezing point. it is 33 degrees in san francisco and 30's for concord and pleasanton. livermore is at lower 40's. here is a look. we have snow in the tahoe
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area and there is still winter advisories' until noon today. >> we are looking at for the bay area that it will be loss of sunshine. some mothers showers may make its way into a sprinkler to. there is loss of sunshine and will be a pretty nice day. the cool air will russia and at temperatures are dropping very quickly. you will want to have your heavy duty jackie handy. get ready for the cold and early tomorrow morning that is when the frost and freeze warnings go into effect. >> here are the advisory's highlighted here. you can see the lighter panic is the frost advisory for the east and bay shoreline. this is for the location. this just
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means that it is very cold and the lows will be in the 20's and '30's. the visitation and your crops may be at risk. future cast 4 shows to rain and snow. up north around ukiah that will get snow. you will see the clause increase wednesday night and around ukiah along the coast. the yellow hugging the scoring is moderate to heavy rain fall. by thursday afternoon, the rain will be prepared a widespread for the full bay area. >> the highs for today's 52 in downtown san francisco, 51 in richmond, 53 in hayward and real would city.
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redwood city. the coldest temperatures that we have seen will be thursday and friday. over the weekend there will be scattered showers and christmas eve we have a chance for showers as well. the time is now 7:49 a.m.. >> i want to star with a look at the san mateo bridge. we had stop and go conditions at the toll plaza. we are at the point where we're looking at peak flows. this represents a big change in several years. the amount of traffic that brings is bridge to asia stop is something that is relatively new. the drive time is now 18 minutes and we will see things slow again before a rally passes. over at the bay bridge is a rough dry. we are back up
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into the macarthur mayes. the drive time is over 20 minutes. for your ride to the golden gate bridge there will be a smooth commute and we are problem free. the drive time is still under 33 minutes for 1 01 southbound. let's check the traffic maps here. >> we are looking at 23 minutes for the commute time from hercules to berkeley. west 24 is not a bad ride nor is the 680 ride southbound. the south bound for way still looks good. the north bay ride that we talked about before this is why it is still under three minutes for 1 01 southbound. if there is very little red showing. >> many americans are now
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supporting stricter gun loss due to friday's mass shooting. in a recent poll 57 percent of respondents stated that it should be stricter. three intense stated that it should be kept the same period in april 41% say that it should be kept the same. while 9 percent said that gun- control should be made less strict. but many of those polled said that they're not sure whether stricter gun control laws would have prevented friday shooting that killed 26 people. >> many people are asking what can be done to keep children said vesco. one school district in texas has an extreme solution. cryst al hall shows us what they
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are doing. >> what they see is that for some-- >> we should have school personnel and we should be the first responders. >> he believes that teachers armed with guns can prevent the shootings. my goal is that if someone comes into trotter my little ones that they should be killed. >> in 2007 they adopted a policy called the guardian plan. it has four components but teachers with a concealed weapons permit can carry a gun with them to school. in five years this has been in place and the superintendents stated that they have not had any problems in school. he stated that the extra security measures have helped. >> this is not in your mind, you just know that it's there. i like it because it
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makes me feel safe. >> this was the main purpose for the garden plant.uardian pl. we need to be here to protect our students. when there is an active shooter. >> if one of the guys get into the school and if he is met with an armed resistance and he will not reach the classrooms. >> they have someone that walks of all all the time. the superintendent's stated that it is his job to protect the teachers and students. >> my call within the day is to let parents know that there still is are want to come home. and the big guys dead. >> the time now 7:53 a.m.. we will be right back.
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>> we are back. aaa expects the holiday travel to increase. this is up 2% from last year. 10 million of the drivers will be on the road along with other drivers. s.f.that fried it will be their peak travel day. >> the prwe will continue to give you the latest on the connecticut school shooting. will have a live report come up about 2 minutes. >>
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>> good morning. the top stories we're following on this tuesday, december 18th. it is back to school this morning for many students in newtown, connecticut. following friday's tragic
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shooting. >> it will be a week of fumaroles in newtown, connecticut. one after another. today we know that a third child will be buried today. >> the morning continues in newtown, connecticut. on monday mourners said final goodbye to secure olix year-old jack pinto. a large crowd
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showed up to say goodbye to of know what. >> i started to cry because it was so close to home. >> students in the area head back to school. supplies and equipment was moved to a another school in a neighboring town. the sandy hooke elementary school's students will soon go to this school for their learning. it is still unknown why the 20 year-old gunman opened fire. authorities are analyzing evidence and interviewing witnesses. they are looking at the shooter smashed computers to see if that and finance. >> we know as investigators that the people of connecticut want to know what happened and we will do that and will provide the within information. we will paint a crystal clear picture as much as we can. >> the atf are zeroing man on best-investigators stated
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that they do know that the shooter once took target practice. >> new information coming in this morning on the shooter, 20 year-old adams lanza. investigators say they do not believe that he was on medication. according say that no evidence was found in the home that he share with his mother if to indicate that he was being treated with drugs to tame any medical condition. it is believed that he had asp erger's and loan. it is unclear if he had never been formally diagnosed. experts say that's asper ger's would not explain the shooting rampage at the elementary school and believe that lanza suffered other mental problems,
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including possible personality disorders. >> the massacre in connecticut has many residents and loss gatos giving more determined to keep a gun shot from opening its doors this saturday. kron 4 urs will tran is live in loss gatos this morning with the details. >> the people that are against this is because is due to a playground and an apartment complex being here. residents here do not want this tub open up because the city did not even let them know. they stated that they should have been told about it and the city stated that they did not have to have a public hearing. what went out this morning we dark reaction from residents and here's what they had to say about
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it. >> i can bear a lot of things but something like this does not fit into the environment. >> would you feel the same way if this cannot happen in connecticut? >> yes. there has been shooting all over and people are getting guns illegally. and what they're doing with them is now right by them hurting people. >> i do not believe that gun shops to be anywhere. >> some of the neighbors around here that says we're trying to talked to people who are okay with a gunshot if all we're not getting people to say that. the state has already approved a gun shop and a police officer also when and some where do the measurements. we are trying to get reactions from the store
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owner as well as the people who are for this gun shops open. >> we will continue all morning long. if schools and newtown are reopening today. we will hear from returning students and their families. we will also focus on the many victims that will be laid to rest this week. we will learn about the two children who will be remembered today. at 845 aid will have more on the investigation. we will have another check of the latest details. >> developing news that we are falling out of palo alto. sand hill road between el camino has been reopened.
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police said driver under the influence ran into a fire hydrant. this is a pitcher of water coming out of a hydrant. police say that the driver has been arrested. no one was injured in this accident. >> let me show you the photographs and a live camera view. this is an extremely slow going. there are two separate incidents. this system exit right here and the other one is on southbound at lowborn of role. this is dry weather freeway narrows. >> it is extremely slow going on southbound where it is about 19 to 22 minutes. it is now up to 26 to 28 minutes. >> here's a quick look at
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the weather. >> here is a live shot at the golden gate bridge. if there is a lot of sunshine to talk about. it is a little bit deceiving because the temperatures are very cooler this morning compared to the following morning is that we've had before. the temperatures have dropped to freeze and it is partly cloudy for the rest of today. if there is a frost and freeze 14 tomorrow morning. otherwise it will be mostly sunny and dry. we are watching a storm system that is coming from thursday and it will be wide spread rain. >> we are at 32 degrees in napa, 33 in santa rosa, 33 and no bottlein novato. we are g the storm system and will talk more about this includes your 7 day whether
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when i return. >> it is 8:07 a.m.. here is a look at the van ness camera. we will be right back. have a good night. here you go. you, too.
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>> the government has slapped toyota with a record $17.4 million fine. >> it says the car maker is once again failed to quickly report problems of federal regulators and a delayed a safety recall. >> this the fourth fine issued to toyota in the past two years to infractions'. >> toyota says it agreed to pay the penalty without admitting any violation of law. >> we're also taking a closer look at gas prices around the nation particularly in the bay area. >> this morning as a national average continues to fall. >> here is a look at your very average gas prices. >> and san francisco the average right now is $2.61 for a gallon of regular gas. >> across the bay in oakland, it is $3.49 a gallon. >> and the south bay it is also $3.49 for regular gallon of gas. >> the state average right now for california's $3.55 a
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gallon. >> on 680 southbound south and walnut creek slow traffic is developing. it is one of our hot spot george is following that an hour traffic.
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elementary, which remains an active crime scene. >> for returning students and their families, is that a productive retain, but the pace dillinger's barrett sandy endo has more. >> will be a little bit worried because we know what we thought was a secure school has happened to them. >> facing fear may be the first step to overcome the tragedy. >> children have to give back to school. if we let this sort of fear in our lives anywhere in this country we have lost. >> classes' are resuming for 54 months of students in the district except for those at sandy hook elementary. >> monday all schools were closed as teachers and administrators trained with expert on how to handle the aftermath. >> many parents we spoke with agree that kids belong
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back in school. >> off i think that one of the big things that we have to do is have some sort of normalcy. school is part that. unfortunately, we are living in a world where evil prevails sometimes. we are bleeding that good will overcome this. >> sandy hook elementary remains a pricing. furnitures and supplies were moved to a neighboring school in monroe. sandy hook students will eventually resume classes' at the school. >> whenever school and started they 20 to walk into a classroom that looks as close as possible to the classroom that they left. >> off let us turn our attention to traffic. george is following hot spot in the east bay along 680. george. >> that is right james. a series of problems for interstate 680 south bound. south main street and the
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warner road. they have left traffic slow. let us zoom in and show you the area. right now at livorno road one lane is blocked with a crash. it has not to adversely affected the north bound right. in his luggage coming out danville mostly it is affecting the southbound 6 a commute. take a look for example, and our camera. this is lower than normal for this southbound 68 ride. >> even if they get it cleared quickly is likely to was his back up clear for about another hour or so. under the best of conditions is always takes about 2915 or 928 in for the south bound back of to clear out with the diamond lane that lavoro. >> here is a bridge check first bay bridge your west bound commutes things are easing a bit on the 880 approach. down to 16-18 minutes for drive time. >> east shore freeway about
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20 minutes about 1/4 to 26 minutes coming of the macarthur maize. >> the san mateo bridge reached a high of about 18 to 19 minute drive time. we're now past the peak for highway 92 west bound. you can see conditions are improving. current drive time to running 13 to 15 minutes. >> finally the golden gate bridge your ride on 101 southbound we're getting close to the peak 41 01 southbound traffic flow across the span. marin county we have lighter than normal drive times. still under 35 minutes from 37 to the golden gate bridge. >> now check of the weather here is anny hong. >> we start with a live look on this tuesday morning. a lot of sunshine beautiful blue skies. it was a chilly start this morning temperatures have dropped quite a bit. this morning we did see some areas of patch defrost in the north bay fog was possible but at this point it should be ok. we should not get any reports
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of low visibility this afternoon. a lot of sunshine off than a few clouds. >> a slight chance for a stray showers this afternoon in the north bay otherwise clear skies it will be cold and frost advisory in a freezer morning in effect. >> temperatures now in napa it is cold freezing 32 degrees. 33 in santa rosa. 37 for novato. in downtown san francisco mid '40's. 34 in vallejo. 32 concert in pleasanton and also into livermore. 44 san mateo and redwood city. >> a bit colder compared to yesterday's. tomorrow even more so. >> satellite and radar picture show us that we have basically clear skies overnight a few clouds in some locations. in the lake tahoe area we have snow we have a winter weather advisory in effect until noon today. >> let us broaden the picture. you can see up to
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the north and west we have snow falling in parts of eureka and rain. there is a slight chance for a shower in the north bay. >> more rain a bigger system coming through on thursday. >> here is a look at your frost advisory and also the freeze morning. >> the freeze warnings annoyed they were using the parker magenta. >> the light pink along the bay shoreline and the interior is the bay off. what this means is it will be very cold come late tomorrow morning until 8:00 on wednesday. >> the lows falling in the 20s in some locations and widespread '30's tomorrow. cover the sensitive plants or bring them inside. >> futurecast 4 start said wednesday night at 6:00 there is your clock cloudy conditions at a clouds will increase wednesday night ahead of our next system bringing in some snow up to ukiah area. 10:00 you can see the rain of along the coastline for the north bay
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and then the yellow showing us a really heavy rain. a moderate heavy rainfall coming through along the coast. this will spread into the entire bay area giving us widespread rain also preconditions on thursday. >> highs for today. downtown san francisco mid '50s. if it is for oakland. napa 52. san rafeal tops out at 51. >> your kron 4 7 day around the bay forecast shows try to day tomorrow. again a slight chance for a shower. otherwise, looking get cloudy and rainy conditions for thursday and friday. two-4 in. of rain potentially for thursday and friday in to the north bay. into the weekend unsettled and also on monday for christmas eve, showers are possible. >> let us go to tahoe and check out your snowbomb ski report were looking at fresh powder. be
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>> fattal is picking up a foot of snow and the last hour. >>-desktop whotahoe . >> back to you james. >> back to news headlines to boys a 13 year old and a 12 year old have been arrested for allegedly breaking into a vallejo home and stealing a gun. >> yesterday afternoon police got a call the two boys were spotted running across columbus parkway carrying a rifle case. the police found two with a 22 caliber rifle and bullets. police say the boys broke into a home on irene a drive. and were headed to a second house and had the idea to shoot the house. there were taken to juvenile hall. >> suidun man is in custody this morning news posted on line comments that police consider criminal threats. >> 18 year-old sergio ca
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bada was arrested for writing that he supports the connecticut school suitors actions and that he had thought about doing the same thing. >> here is a photograph of cabvada he was arrested at his home in suisun. >> the james lick freeway is looking good. sunny and clear for you traffic wise. >>
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welcome back is a 20 5:00 a.m.. >> in the aftermath of the shooting at the sandy hook school. gun related crimes have increased in san for cisco, oakland and san jose over the past decade. >> in san francisco the number of robberies nearly doubled from 77 in 2000 to 129 in 2010. >> the figure is per 100,000 people. in oakland the number of unrelated robbery women doubled from 180 to 413. >> if and san jose, the number robbers rose from 15 to 22 and the same time. . >> many americans are now supporting stricter gun control laws. in recent poll conducted between friday and sunday, 57 percent said that gun control should be made stricter, up 39% in april. three n t in said it should
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be kept the same, where in april 41 percent said it should be kept the same. >> of 5 percent said gun control should be made less strict. >> but many of those polled said they're not sure whether stricter gun control laws would have prevented friday shooting that killed 26 people. >> and many said the shooting at sandy hook is not just an isolated act of one person, but rather a broader problems in society. >> after the aurora killings in july, just before the americans in a few research center poll said the shootings there reflected bigger issues in the country. >> that number has more than doubled to 52%, with 43% sandy hook is an isolated incident. 67 percent have said so about aurora . the shift after sandy hook is a
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broad base, with most democrats, republicans and independents alike now saying the shooting is a sign of societal problems. >> let's take a look at the san mateo bridge is light traffic out there no problems.
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we are backed at 830 this morning. live look at the golden gate bridge where traffic is moving well on the span. is 680 that is the problem. as head to the traffic center. georgetown was a hot spot? >> not getting much better chance. >> we're checking the hot spot in marin. here is a 680 ride south bound we're looking just at walnut creek past main street. there are lanes blocked southbound at the border road. that is the reason for the big play here. --low or non roll
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>> a new hot spot for marin county 101 south bound in central san raphael furs report of an accident. for the first time we have seen the entire stretch of wo roadway from highwadown to san >> we will be updating that coming up. first as does a quick check of weather here is anny. >> good morning george. the live look at the golden gate bridge. and chilly start to the morning. look at the beautiful shot a lot of blue sky. today will be a nice day once warm of. >> today we could see patchy frost especially the truck they were temperatures have plummeted to around the freezing mark. >> partly cloudy and breezy and frost advisory and freeze morning to start off your with the morning. it will be cold. mostly sunny
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and dry for wednesday. >> the next storm arrives on thursday bring widespread rain and breezy conditions. >> two victors in downtown san fiscal 44. san jose lower forties'. of the mid '40's. concord into the mid '30's. livermore also in the upper '30's at this hour. >> temperatures in apple improving. you were at the freezing mark at 32. just about 30 minutes ago. now you are at 34 degrees. 34 vallejo of fairfield. of the inlet east location. we are looking at 39 for novato. also daly city has dropped down to 39 as well. definitely a chilly start. more on your forecast i will let you know how cold it for tomorrow. first here is a darya. >> school in new town connecticut are opening their doors today for the first time since friday's deadly shooting at sandy hook elementary. >> the school where 20
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children died will remain closed. >> it is been designated a crime scene, and state police say it could be months before police turned road-test the school that go to the district. >> in the meantime, school officials are making plans to send students to reform bills go in a neighboring town. >> the burials continue. two little girls will be laid to rest today. >> the family of justice rekos pictured on the right, says she loved horses and nearly anticipating a pair of cal girl but for christmas. >> meanwhile, charlotte bacon is described as being a bundle of energy and love school. >> services will be held today. >> a candlelight vigil will be held in pleasanton today to honor those killed in the sandy hook elementary school massacre. >> sponsored by the mohr
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elementary school pta, the vigil will take place from 6 to 9:00 p.m. at amaral park, 3400at 3400 been this drive. >> donations for the families intact by the shooting was also big said that the visual, and can be dropped off at a designated table. >> checks could be made out to the new town databank for the sandy hook support fun. >> or learn more about information about a local gun buyback program. >> just a day after the connecticut shooting, both oakland and san francisco took nearly 600 guns off the street. >> revolvers, pistols, shotguns, rifles and assault rifles were collected over the weekend. >> for each gun turned in, the owner got $200. >> a lot of the guns were illegal. >> on saturday 300 guns were turned it oakland. and 296
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in san francisco. >> new this morning, route '40's are on the scene of the murder-suicide. >> it happened in the neighborhood of longmont about 30 mi. outside of denver. >> police say they received an emergency or early this morning. >> when there ride on the scene they discovered the bodies of four people. >> officials said it appears a murder-suicide is to blame. an investigation is now under way. >> a house fire in richmond has said one resident to the hospital this morning. a single alarm fire in richmond was reported around 230 of the 6300 block of jerilyn avenue. >> the only occupant of the house was transferred to the hospital and treated for smoke titillation. >> authorities said the fire was under control within 30 minutes. >> the 8 says that the
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speaker of the house presented a proposal for a caucus meeting this morning. >> the secretary best as a speaker of the house opposing a plan the option to keep taxes from increasing of people making less than 1 million on january 1st. >> we will be back with more in a couple of minutes we want to remind you new year's eve is coming up and we have a live special on december 31st.
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welcome back. and reporter and his crew held for five days and syria have been freed. >> and nbc news says its chief foreign correspondent, richard engel is safe, on hard been out of the country. >> the network says they disappeared shortly after crossing into northwest there from turkey on thursday. >> if this is a they were finally free yesterday's in a firefight and a checkpoint manned by rebel fighters. which they ran into as they were removed. >> nbc says while the crew is missing there was no claim of responsibility, no contact with the captors and no request for ransom.
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>> hawaii senator daniel enna way has died. >> he died of respiratory complications that washington area hospital. the 88 year-old was the longest serving senator. he spent 50 years in the senate and was awarded a medal of honor. >> in national new court documents say the gunman in last weeks or in motioning at the weird and have talked about moving and selling its possessions. >> investigators say 22 year-old jacob tyler roberts opened fire at the claclma town center mall outside portland, killing two people and wounding a third, before taking his own life. >> hours at the deli rampage, his roommate called a tip line until the texas he thought roberts may be responsible. >> the number of executions around the country has
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remained steady this year, but the number of states carrying out capital punishment continues to drop. >> this according to reports by the death penalty information center. it found 43 men were put to death in 2012, matching to towelette is total. >> meanwhile, nearly 80 people were sentenced to death this year. >> that is the second lowest total since 1976. >> and only nine states carry out lethal injections of convicted capital murders in 2012. >> a federal judge denied a legal request by apple to ban u.s. sales of sam songsungs smart phone models. >> the ruling comes after apple was awarded more than a billion dollars in damages after a jury found samsung has copy critical features of the iphone and ipad. >> earlier this year, an apple lawyer called the
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jury's 1.5 billion award a slap on the wrist. >>. at the the kron 4 news stock feel is in new town connecticut covering the tragedy at sandy hook elementary. >> it is a topic dr. phil tax today at 10, look at you guys with your fancy-schmancy
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welcome back. 8:45 a.m. the top stores we are following. students will return to class today in new town, conn., will see tighter security. >> the town that has to start the process of burying the 20 children were killed last week is still on edge, and some parents are likely to keep their children at home today. >> all schools a separate set of elementary are back in session today. >> it is a cold morning will check the forecast. will the check of your tuesday forecast a minute first george has a hot spot. >> 680 of the southbound direction of walnut creek and into danville. and earlier are occurring accident is clear now at
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livorno. newly occurring problem as south main street. look we are still slow past may street all the way down to of juana closer to stone valley road. -- oivorna >> 28 minutes of walnut creek headed for the dublin that is an 18 to 20 minute drive. another hot spot is not as bad as it could have been. >> 101 southbound in central san raphael. the last cacalculations drive time is 38 minutes. did go up but not by much. a 40 minute drive time on 101 southbound out to the golden gate bridge. >> average check at the bay bridge for westbound improvements for the 80 approach. from a high of 19 to 21 minutes down now to a 14 minute drive time for the west bound approach.
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>> coming out of the macarthur maize you are down to about 19 minutes from the east shore freeway about 16 to 18 minutes for your drive time. >> for the san mateo bridge and roughrider earlier but now we're down to a comfortable lead to 13 minute drive. the golden gate bridge problem freed though we are at the peak of traffic flow south bound. >> it will be sluggish from the south tower to the toll plaza. >> if a beautiful day outside the us could update from anny. >> it is due to george. but it is chilly. >> all blue sky it will be a gorgeous day. temperatures will be on the cool side this afternoon. areas of patch defrost this morning from the north bay temperatures have cooled down around the freezing mark. otherwise, a lot of sunshine in a bit breezy. >> tomorrow at frost advisory and a freeze warnings in affect for the north bay also mostly sunny and dry.
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>> beyond that storm arrives thursday widespread rain and reconditions to finish off the work week. >> temperatures are in the '30's and napa. the bottle 39. santa rosa 43. vallejo, fairfield, copper, sunnyvale all looking at 30. daly city 39. downtowns have to go at 44. >> snow falling in parts of lake tahoe. a winter weather advisory in effect until noon. we have a slight change for many a stray showers in the north bay because of what we see coming here. north of ukiah where we have scattered showers. even some snow. snow have been reported in parts of eugene oregon and it to seattle. temperatures will drop tonight quickly.
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tomorrow morning will be a cold start. this is why the national weather service issued a frost advisory and a freeze warning. get ready for the cold pier is for wednesday from 3 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.. >> the north bay this dark magenta they are under a freeze morning. >> for the bay shoreline with the pink and the interior east bay community have a frost advisory. >> what this means is that it will it really cold. lows and the 20s in some ead '30's. cover your sense of plants. >> surpassed four shows the right model, wednesday at 6:00 it was a clouds of the increase starting from the north. you will see you qaeda looking at showers of right moving in late wednesday. >> our north bay communities on the coast was in the rain first. >> by thursday morning-as by the afternoon we will do with preconditions.
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>> the highs for today and the '50s. 52 in downtown san francisco. redwood city 53 and 51 for vallejo. >> your kron 4 7 day around the bay forecast shows strike today and tomorrow with the exception of maybe a little drizzle or spie sprinkle in the north bay. >> is the cold air we have seen all day long. bring out the heavy duty winter jackets. >> thursday and friday is on the rain comes in and also when the conditions. >> the weekend is unsettled with showers. >> christmas eve which account for showers. >> the time is 8:50 a.m. let us go back to james. >> we have live pictures coming out of chicago or two prisoners it looks like they're on the lam having us get from the metropolitan correctional center. that could possibly used bedsheets. both of the the escaped after 5:00 a.m. the
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was the last time security guards to a bed check. according to at least some of the local reports a rope could be seen dangling from about 15 stories up along the south side of the correctional facility. things have been tied together to create that rope and that is why we are speculating bed sheets could have been used. the two are traveling together there are reports that they have been seen in a suburb of chicago. where one of this suspect is to live. >> the giants continue to put the band back together. they have signed right hand side diablo casila -- santiago casilla 33 year contract with a club option for its fourth year. >> casila had 25 saves last season. this off-season. the giants riverside and--re-
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signed their entire will appear with the exception of guillermo mota. >> you to have released its list of top 10 trading video of the year. >> not surprisingly, a certain lorean rap star lead the list. >>psy's gangham spy 0 is on track to hit 1 billion views. >> in just six months, it became the most beautiful you to video ever. >> others and the list of the most viewed videos include, lony 2012, and call me maybe by carly re jepsisn. >>carly ray jepsen,.
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>> let us take a
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>> britain's queen elizabeth has made history today. the queen became the country's worst mark in more than 100 years to attend a cabinet meeting. >> this is a video of the queen arriving and downing street in london this morning where she was greeted by prime minister david cameron. >> the wind's visit was part for diamond jubilee celebration that marks 60 years on the throne. >> but donald is pressuring franchisers frost to open on christmas day. it is all part of a bid to boost holiday sales. >> big bottles you as a chief operating officef and jim johansson says " our
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largest holiday opportunity as a system is christmas day in ". >> last year, company-owned stores were open on a holiday indicia regattas wants to expand. >> the push for the restaurant's open on christmas comes after high sales for the month of november. >> will have more on the latest in the investigation into the new town connecticut shooting. >> we also have financial winners and losers with financial expert rob black. >> colder weather on tap for tomorrow. we would get a check on your forecast and george is following hot spots on the traffic front.
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(male announcer): live from the bay area this is the kron 4 morning news. kron 4 news at 9:00 a.m. starts now. >> the top stores were falling on this tuesday december 18th it is back to school this morning for many students in new town conn.
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the scene of the shooting is still closed. we will get the latest developments in just a couple of minutes. >> for to go to george with an update on the hot spots. >> we have been trekking to over the last 45 minutes. interstate 6 a deal with the san ramon valley leading to danville of walnut creek. and marin county. >> they're both completely cleared on 68 southbound. we are starting to see traffic move. this back up usually last until about 915 or 920. it is at 9:00 that the diamond lane the restriction is lifted from 680 southbound at love on the road. >> once that occurred there is an extra lane of traffic to the san ramon valley. >> currently we are looking at a reduction in the drive time of 26 minutes you can see yellow here in yellow here. session with red showing on the map where speeds dropped below 25 mi.
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per hour. >> things are winding down nicely. we are already starting to see a drop in the drive time with the marin commute 1 01 south down there was a pass in central south raphael. >> the drive time peaked at 22--42 minutes. >> that is made from highway 37 interchange with 1 01 down to the golden gate bridge. and as a look at the weather next year is anny. >> good morning george were starting with a live look at the san mateo bridge. >> it will be a pretty nice day after the chilly start we had this morning. we could see the areas of patch defrost in the north bay. >> come tomorrow morning it will be a lot colder. >> this afternoon a lot of sunshine will keep the chance for a sprinkle possible. because we have some western north the bus with could be of us.
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>> we have a frost advisory in effect for early wednesday morning. temperatures now in the '30's. we are slightly improving. 37 in napa. 39 for vallejo. fairfield at 34 degrees. a lot of '40's. 44 downtown san francisco. oakland 49. 45 in hayward. pleasanton at 39 degrees. >> we are watching the storm system coming from the north and west. is already brought snow into oregon and it to seattle this morning. >> more details on a forecasting clothing your 7 day. >> thank you anny. schools are back in new town conn with a mass shooting took place on friday. this as the young victims continue to be laid to rest renee marsh has the latest. >> it will be a week of funerals here in town conn. today the third young child
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60 jessica roecos. >> a young victim will be laid to rest. on monday mourners said a final goodbye to six year old jack pinto. >> very sad. as hard as any parent would take it losing a first grader. >> a. large crowd showed up to say goodbye to secure old noah pozner. >> i started to cry. very close to home. >> students will be back to school today except for sandy hook elementary. >> monday supplies and equipment was moved to a school in a neighboring town or sandy hook students will eventually return to class. >> we need to lead with love. that is what i've seen our community do. >> it is still known why the 20 year-old gunman opened fire at the elementary school. authorities are analyzing evidence, in view of witnesses, and looking at
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the shooter's smashed whole computer looking to find answers. >> as investigators we know the people of this town of new town want to know what happened we were going to do that. we are going to provide them with all the information. >> will take a crystal clear picture as much as we possibly can. >> the atf is still rolling in on all gun ranges in the area. the reason for that is that investigators say they know the shooter used to go to target practice. >> reporting in new town connecticut light and renee marsh. >> investigators say they do not believe lanza was on any medication. >> authorities say no evidence was found in a home lanza shared with his mother to indicate he was being treated with drugs to take my any mental condition. >>-is believed dead lanaza has asked workers centrum. but it is unclear if he had
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never been formally diagnosed. >> experts say as burgers would not explain the shooting rampage at the elementary school elementary belieflanza suffered other mental problems, including possible personality disorder. >> the massacre in connecticut as many residents in los gatos even more determined to keep a gun shop for opening in its doors on saturday. >> kron fours will tran and lows got us this morning with the details. >> what you say to an institution has all the correct permits they need. when it opens on saturday everyone should be safe. >> some critics say not in my backyard i do not want it here because one there is a playground nearby and apartment complexes down the street. >> they typically did not want it they did not want it before. and now with conn they do not want it here even though it is situated
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in a business district. >> all morning we have been going around trying to get reaction from residents who live here. >> here is what they have to say about the play's opening up. >> we will have more accessible guns in the town it does not seem to fit. >> they're a lot of children here. it is a nice downtown area for shopping. a farmer's market. and going next door to buy a gun is not fit in that environment. >> with all the things that have been going on i think if we had a massive gun abolish it will be a lot better off. >>darya if i can tell you we have tried to find people that are for the gunshot. also we are still trying to get a hold of the arms. >> people against the gun shop you conceit is surrounded by these business, a garage, a barber shop, a laundromat. >> they're all coming
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against this place and that the city and saying why did not tell us there was someone out there looking to open up the gun shop. >> the city says bylaw we do not have to have a public hearing it is time someone wants to come and open a business. back to you sarya . >> thank you will. >> in developing nuclear falling out of palo alto. sandhill road between el camino and arboretum road has reopened. >> police say driver under the influence ran into a fire hydrant. >> this is a pitcher of water coming out of police saide driver in the arrested. no one was injured in the exit. >> would be back with more and a look at your traffic at your weather
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>> a federal judge has denied a legal request by apple to bend u.s. sales of samsung smart phone models. a federal judge ruled that apple was awarded more than a billion dollars in damages after a jury found samsung had copied critical features of the iphone and ipad. earlier this year, and apple lawyer called the jury's 1.5 billion award a slack interest. in turn, some argued that apple was trying to tie we will be right
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>> it is 9:14 a.m.. we will see if the hot spots are getting better. >> we were attracted hot spots but there are new problems for the east bay. at interstate 580 a vehicle broke down. it blocked one of the middle lanes of interstate 580. the freeway was back up pass highway 13. we're still seeing that the
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traffic is still slow. the mimic freeway is not a good alternate due to being a peak flow. it is about 26 minutes to downtown san francisco. >> the bay bridge ride westbound is good news. it is still slow through the macarthur mayes. this is for traffic leading to interstate 80. it is back down to 14 to 16 minutes. we're past the peak for the san mateo bridge at highway 92. the drive time is back down to 11 to 13 minutes. for the golden gate bridge 1 01 southbound is still heavy traffic from the south tower heading down to the toll plaza. the ride through
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central marin is now moving south at 40 minutes. >> we are looking at patchy falk and the north bay. the temperatures were down to freezing. tomorrow morning it will be a cold one. there will be a frost advisory for the early wednesday hours. it will be mostly sunny and dry. beyond that a storm arrives for a thursday and will be wide spread rain. temperatures right now are in the mid 40's for downtown san francisco. it is a little milder and napa at 37 degrees. 39 degrees in vallejo and fairfield is in
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the low 40's. concord and pleasanton are in the low 40's. satellite and radar shows that we did have snow falling and parts of lake tahoe. >> if we brought about this bill you can see that our net storm system will bring snow. we will see some of this moisture scoop down by thursday and we also have a cold air in place. the snow level will be fairly low. freeze warnings have been issued until 3:00 a.m.. north bay has a phrase morning and this is where you see the darker fuchsia color. this basically means
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that temperatures and the forecast could go down to low 20s. >> future cast 4 shows you where the rain will becoming win. when say as 6:00 it will be dry but we will see the clouds on the rise from wednesday night to thursday morning. we do have rain coming in from a cole's into the north bay for first. it should be fairly widespread. the weekend is also looking to be unsettle. your highs for to that will be 52 degrees in downtown san francisco. 54 degrees and sunny bill. it should feel pretty decent. >> your 7 day around the bay shows very cold for tomorrow morning. it will be the
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coldest temperature that we have seen all year. thursday and friday will be cloudy and wets. the weekend was also be unsettled with showers. we do have a chance of rain for christmas eve. we're talking temperatures will be for a 11 in. of snow. squaw valley is picking up 4 to 6 in. of new snow. this is your snow on ski reports. >> joining us now to talk winners and losers is rob black. a winner that we have is apple shares up as samsung withdrew their patent fight. >> you understand why these 2 tech giants were not
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happy. the united states court stated that apple cannot do an injunction. hours later samsung said that they were going to pull their in junction offer their products against apple. therefore, there will be no more sewing. it was never a great stock story. >> losers--holiday travel is expected to break records. nearly a 11.7 million californians are expected to travel at least 50 mi. for a holiday season. that is up and flights will be 90% or more full. >> there is a 1.8% increase
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the cost is also up. and this is, why it is an illusory area. it is just >> let's talk facebook. there in the winner's column. facebook users hit like stories to jumping into action. macy's and other retailers are starting to use facebook to find out what people really want. >> macy, wal-mart and best buy are trying to use space but to do market research.
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$12 million in revenue is expected for facebook. when their biggest areas is the log out screen. a lot of people use public computers to check their account. >> are less wenner this brittany spears. brittany spears top earnings woman and music. the 31 year-old pop star pulled in $58 million over the past year, more than any other woman in the music industry. her latest album, femme fatale, was certified platinum and the ensuing to work accounted for the bulk of her books. endorsements and a fragrance line with the elizabeth arden added millions more to her coffers. >> bit on the x factor has not hurt her at all either.
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>> 9:26 a.m. is the time. in aftermath of the sandy hook elementary school shooting, cities across the country are reflecting upon the damage done is have done in their own communities. here in the bay area, the fbi says the gun related crimes have increased in san francisco, oakland and san jose over the past decade.
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in san francisco, the number of robberies involving a gun and nearly doubled from 77 and 2000 to 129 in 2010. this figure is per 100,000 people. in oakland, the number of unrelated robbery more than doubled from 180 to 413. meanwhile in san jose, the number robberies rose from 15 to 20 to join the same period of time. >> and many say that the shooting at sandy hook is not just an isolated act of one person, but rather a broader problem in society. after the zero rototilling is in july, just 24 percent of americans na fuel research center po stated
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that the shootings were reflected bigger issues and the country. that number has more than doubled to 52%, with 43 percent scene sandy hook as an isolated incident-that 67 percent had said so about all road. the shift after sandy hook is broad based, with most democrats, republicans and independents alike now are saying that the shooting is a sign of a societal problem. >> when will be right back.
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>> is 9:30 a.m.. >> come this time tomorrow it will be a lot colder. here is a live look at the golden gate bridge. this is a little deceiving but by this afternoon is to be a pretty good looking day. we did see a chilly start this morning. the temperatures are starting to climb. this afternoon there will be a lot of sunshine. we may have a slight chance for showers tonight the skies will be clearer and the frost advisory is in effect for
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early tomorrow morning. >> the temperatures right now are mostly in the 30's except for napa. everyone else are now making it into the 40's. downtown san francisco was coming in at 47 degrees. >> there is a storm that is brand is no for parts of eureka. get ready for the release cold conditions for early tomorrow morning. you will want to get out your heavy-duty coat. i will have more detail coming up. >> here is your bridge check. we're all cleared out of the bay bridge. the crowd is not too much at this time. things are clear not
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at the san mateo bridge at westbound 92. the commute is all done here and at the golden gate bridge the marin traffic was a little bit heavy but now the golden gate bridge is looking good. >> one of the big stories that we are following appears is that schools in newtown, conn. are opening their doors today for the first time since friday's daily shooting at sandy hook elementary. if the school where 20 children died will remain closed. it has been designated a crime scene, and state police say it could be months before police turn the school back over to the district. in the meantime, school officials are making plans to send this to is a former middle schools in a neighboring town. >> we have just learned about more services happening today. two
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funerals and to dealings will get underway later this afternoon. billings are scheduled for 7 year old east daniel barden and that teacher who we have heard so much about, 27 year-old vic toria soto. >> meantime here are the two children whose rules are today. the family of jessica rekos pitcher, wright says that she loved horses and was eagerly anticipating a pair of callow grumbles for christmas. meanwhile, charlottebacon is described as being a bundle of energy and loved school. services for both will be held today. >> a candlelight vigil will
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be held in pleasanton to that time of those killed in the standing of elementary school massacre. sponsored by the mohr elementary school pta, the visual will take place from 6 to 9:00 p.m. at amaral park, at 3400 dennis drive. donations for the families impacted by the shooting will be also collected and accepted at the vigil, and can be dropped off at a designated table. checks can be made out to the new town savings bank for the sandy hook support fund. >> and east bay high school
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senior is being mourned today after he was killed in a shooting in san francisco's bay area district. 17 year-old mon treal blakely, was shot in the first block of osceola land on saturday night. many students at the school organized to be a social media to wear black today to mourn blakely. this morning firefighters are investigating a small fire in san francisco is on west field mall on market street. at happened about 815 last night. the fire was extinguished about 25 minutes later and was in a flu coming from a restaurant in the building. one person and it will tear on the floor was assisted out of the building off firefighters. >> an attempted robbery at a
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san francisco farmers say leaves a man with a gunshot wound. the robber was reported around 6:03 p.m. last night in the 3600 block of cesar chavis street, in this city's mission district. two people approach to the man attempted to rob the pharmacy. they shot the man and let and took off in a car. the man is expected to be okay. >> new this morning, the white house is rejecting house speaker john boehner's
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plan b to avoid the fiscal cliff. the house speaker presented the new proposal to the house of representatives this morning. white house spokesman jay carney says that the house speaker proposal cannot pass the senate and that it does little to address the nation's fiscal issues. carney says that president obama is willing to continue working with the republicans to keep from going over the cliff on january 1st. >> we will be right back.
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>> and a reporter and his crew held for five days and syria have been freed. nbc news said its chief foreign correspondent, richard in joke, it's safe, unharmed and now out of the country. it says that they were finally free yester day in a fire fight at a checkpoint manned by rebel fighters, which they ran into is that were being mold. nbc said
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that while the crew was missing, there was no claim of responsibility, no contact with the capers and no request for ransom. >> hawaii's senator daniel enna-way died. he died of a respiratory complications at a washington area hospitals. the 88 year-old was the longest serving senator. he spent 50 years in the senate. >> in nationals court documents say that the gunmen and last week's oregon mall shooting acted weird and had talked about moving and selling his possessions. the roommate says that roberts began selling his belongings on craigslist and often talk about moving to hawaii. >> the number executions around the country has remained steady this year, but the number states
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carrying out capital punishment continues to drop. this according to a report by the death penalty information center. it found that 43 men were put to death in 2012, matching 2000 and elevens total. meanwhile, nearly 80 people were sentenced to death this year. that's the second lowest total since 1976. only nine states carried out lethal injections of convicted murderers in 2012. >> we will be right back. [ female announcer ] here's to a whole world
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many americans are now supporting stricter gun control laws. in a recent poll conducted between friday and saturday, 57 percent said that gun control should be made stricter, up 39% in april. >> for those against this gun shop here they told the owner not in my backyard. they were against this before and now they are even more determined. unless something can happen from now to saturday it looks like this gun shop will open legally. the people that are against it are man because they were not notified about it. there is a nearby playground and an apartment complex that is right by. >> the city stated that they cannot have to let the residents know the there will be a shop opening. it
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they stated that it will be a hearing-stashed by law they should not have to be notified. >> 9:47 a.m. is the time. we want to take a check at the weather. >> we are looking at a chilly start today. it was right around freezing for people in napa. it will be breezy at a time. for tomorrow will start out very cold. there'll be a frost and freeze advisory in the morning. tomorrow afternoon will be sunny. a storm comes on thursday with a wide spread rain. the temperatures right now are improving. most of us are in the 40's. vallejo is still
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at 39 degrees. oakland is that mid 40's. half moon bay is that 50 degrees. downtown san francisco was coming in at 47 degrees. we did have snow falling in the lake tahoe area. the winter advisory expires at noontime today. >> it should be a pretty nice day and as you can see there is a storm system that is impacting the northwest. it may even bring dan snow for oaktemperatures wia very quickly. get ready for
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the cold. the north bay is highlighted in this magenta , fuchsia color. it will drop down to maybe and a 20 sprea20 degrees. it will be widespread third is all across. future cast 4 shows that the showers will start at 6:00 p.m. on--once we put this into motion the showers will pick can late wednesday night. >> bursting morning along the coast and parts of the north bay was the rain arriving. it will be heavy.
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the highs for today will be in the '50s. 52 degrees and san mateo. we will struggle to get in the mild side. average and will be below average. your kron 47 day or around the bay shows that there will be a very cold start for tomorrow morning. thursday and friday the change will be coming. it will be cloudy and wets.. here is a look form next monday it may be unsettled as well. >> many americans are now wondering what can be done. once school district in texas has a solution. crystal ball shows us what they're doing. >> they have a guardian
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plan. the school districts across the nation are looking to see what they can do. >> my monitor has been this. as school personnel we are the first responders. >> this school superintendents said that teachers armed with guns can prevent school shootings. >> if someone comes into try to hurt the little ones then they should be killed. >> they adopted this policy plan and that it has four components. teachers who have a concealed license can carry a gun with them to school. and the five years of this has been in place they have had no incidents at their schools. he stated that this is due to the extra security measures that
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they have taken. >> it makes me feel safer because i know that my teacher has a weapon. >> if faye shooter should come to school there law enforcement is just 30 minutes away. >> we need to be here to protect our children right now not 5 to 10 minutes later. >> i praise them for what they do. if one of these guys enter the school they do not have a chance to make it to the classroom. >> the superintended stated that it is his job to protect his students and teachers the best way that he can. >> my call to parents is that their children will be coming home and that we have caught the bad guy. >> the timeout is 9:52 a.m.
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>> more workers are taken time off this holiday season. according to a poll conducted by the work force institut. nearly 40% of workers plan to take christmas eve off, while 28% will take off the following monday, which is new year's eve. about 50% took those days off in 2007, the last time those dates fell on a monday, when the previous survey was conducted. >> thank you for watching.
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